On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 04:25:16PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
I think this is the basic objection to putting unbounded bignums into
core. I mentioned before the idea of dividing bignums into smaller
(bignum) and larger (biggernum) versions, though med(i)num and
bignum are probably better names.
Peter Bex scripsit:
I don't see how that helps. What would (+ the-biggest-medinum 1) do?
If it returns a flonum, we're back to where we are right now.
That's what I'm proposing for core. And it does put us back where we
are now in terms of pure Scheme operations, though in a way that both
